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On 09/05/14 22:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 13:54:07 -0600, Joseph wrote: |
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>> >> I don't need to format sda1, grub2-install should take care of it. |
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>> >> So what am I doing wrong? |
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>> >Did you run grub2-install from within the chroot? I've had problems |
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>> >with this in the past, no error messages but GRUB is not installed |
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>> >correctly. Instead, mount your root and boot partitions at /mnt/gent |
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>> >and /mnt/gentoo/boot and run grub2-install from the live system |
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>> > |
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>> >grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt/gentoo |
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>> >--boot-directory=/mnt/gentoo/boot /dev/sda |
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>> This will install grub in /mnt/gentoo/boot and will be gone after I |
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>> reboot. |
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>GRUB is already installed there, when you emerged it. grub-install sets |
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>up the bootstrapping, but it needs to know where the files are, and they |
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>are in /mnt/gentoo. I've done it this way several times and it always |
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>worked, your way has not worked. You decide which is preferable. |
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>> I was able to boot the system with systemrescue CD the kernel on the |
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>> HD. The problem I have is my BIOS does not recognize GPT partition |
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>On what factual evidence do you base that statement? |
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>> I think I'll have to format entire drive in MBR and start from scratch. |
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>> How to format disk in MBR, current "fdisk" defaults to GPT. |
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>fdisk doesn't default to anything AFAIR, it creates whatever type of |
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>partition table you tell it to, depending on whether you press g or o. |
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I did you suggested: |
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# grub2-install --root-directory=/mnt/gentoo --boot-directory=/mnt/gentoo/boot /dev/sda |
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Installation finished. No error reported. |
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# grub2-mkconfig -o /mnt/gentoo/boot/grub/grub.cfg |
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Generating grub.cfg ... |
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Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo |
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done |
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ls -al /mnt/gentoo/boot/ |
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total 8636 |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 5 15:58 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 5 13:44 .. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94478 Sep 5 15:58 config-3.14.14-gentoo |
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drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Sep 5 15:57 grub |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3037035 Sep 5 15:58 System.map-3.14.14-gentoo |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5689632 Sep 5 15:58 vmlinuz-3.14.14-gentoo |
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reboot the system and it still doesn't boot. |
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Joseph |
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